As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado.
The editors introduce the research with scientific context. A review of seventy-five years of Paleoindian archaeology in Colorado highlights the foundation on which new work builds, and a survey of Colorado's ancient climates and ecologies helps readers understand Paleoindian settlement patterns.
Eight essays discuss archaeological evidence from Plains to high Rocky Mountain sites. The book offers the most thorough analysis to date of Dent--the first Clovis site discovered. Essays on mountain sites show how advances in methodology and technology have allowed scholars to reconstruct settlement patterns and changing lifeways in this challenging environment.
Colorado has been home to key moments in human settlement and in the scientific study of our ancient past. Readers interested in the peopling of the New World as well as those passionate about the methods and history of archaeology will find new material and satisfying overviews in this book. Contributors include Rosa Maria Albert, Robert H. Brunswig, Reid A. Bryson, Linda Scott Cummings, James Doerner, Daniel C. Fisher, David L. Fox, Bonnie L. Pitblado, Jeffrey L. Saunders, Todd A. Surovell, R. A. Varney, and Nicole M. Waguespack.

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edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado

Brunswig, Robert H.; Pitblado, Bonnie L.

Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/)

James L. Mondloch

University Press of Colorado ; Gazelle Drake Academic [distributor

Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses), Boulder, 2007

Book collections on Project MUSE, Boulder :, ©2007

United States, United States of America

Lancaster, Niwot, Colo, 2008

Boulder, Colorado, 2007

Boulder, cop. 2007

November 30, 2007

Louisville, 2007

2, 20071130

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover 1
Frontmatter 2
Contents 8
List of Illustrations 10
List of Contributors 14
Preface 16
Acknowledgments 18
Introduction 22
1. Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments of the Colorado Front Range 30
2. That Was Then, This Is Now: Seventy-Five Years of Paleoindian Research in Colorado 58
3. New Interpretations of the Dent Mammoth Site: A Synthesis of Recent Multidisciplinary Evidence 104
4. Season of Death of the Dent Mammoths: Distinguishing Single from Multiple Mortality Events 140
5. Processing Marks on Remains of Mammuthus columbi from the Dent Site, Colorado, in Light of Those from Clovis, New Mexico: Fresh- Carcass Butchery Versus Scavenging? 172
6. Phytolith and Starch Analysis of Dent Site Mammoth Teeth Calculus: New Evidence for Late Pleistocene Mammoth Diets and Environments 202
7. Building a Picture of the Landscape Using Close-Interval Pollen Sampling and Archaeoclimatic Modeling: An Example from the KibRidge-Yampa Paleoindian Site, Northwestern Colorado 210
8. Folsom Hearth-Centered Use of Space at Barger Gulch, Locality B 234
9. Paleoindian Cultural Landscapes and Archaeology of North-Central Colorado's Southern Rockies 276
10. Angostura, Jimmy Allen, Foothills-Mountain: Clarifying Terminology for Late Paleoindian Southern Rocky Mountain Spear Points 326
Afterword: A Wyoming Archaeologist's Past and Present View of Wyoming and Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology 354
Index 372
Publisher:University Press of Colorado,Published:2007,ISBN:9780870819766,Related ISBN:9780870818905,Language:English,OCLC:475628061
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado. The editors introduce the research with scientific context. A review of seventy-five years of Paleoindian archaeology in Colorado highlights the foundation on which new work builds, and a survey of Colorado's ancient climates and ecologies helps readers understand Paleoindian settlement patterns. Eight essays discuss archaeological evidence from Plains to high Rocky Mountain sites. The book offers the most thorough analysis to date of Dent--the first Clovis site discovered. Essays on mountain sites show how advances in methodology and technology have allowed scholars to reconstruct settlement patterns and changing lifeways in this challenging environment. Colorado has been home to key moments in human settlement and in the scientific study of our ancient past. Readers interested in the peopling of the New World as well as those passionate about the methods and history of archaeology will find new material and satisfying overviews in this book.

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